Sunny Days!

Yes, yes, hiatus. I've been off my game for a while but that happens when life gets you down. Its been more than a while actually and I'm dying to get back on my game. I'm going to be doing a little bit of some revamping to this little blog since it wasn't really working out in some ways. But the sun brings the best of things and it brought about this fantastic little inspiring flower.

The flower above is a Teddy Bear Sunflower that I grew in my window sill. Its beautiful capturing the colors of your own plants but yes this edited as well. I took my Photoshop CS3 to it and changed some coloring but I don't think it much matters because it makes the statement I wanted it to. I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with the previous photo project, but that's one of those things we are going to be working on changing. I don't want to get bored with this because its honestly very good for someone to enjoy their work so much so we are going to be doing the photo projects that's for certain but we are also going to be doing a clause. This time around we are going to be photographing whatever the heck we want, IF for whatever reason life wants to get in the way. we aren't going to let it because being a kid on Sesame Street is way better than being a mopey and annoying adult from boredville. Its kind of nice getting back into the groove, I've certainly been wanting to and that means that we need to get the projects back as well. Since I started up again without my list of types of photos we are going to go by ear this week.

I hope I can redeem myself with you all. Ready, set, CLICK!
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Baggy Bunny!

Stacking Blocks

You know it seems to me that upon looking further at these still life shots all over deviant art and on the net, that I should most certainly be taking a step back. I mean still life captures stillness, and I creep in so close because when I started doing photography I lived in its face. Macro is my safe place. Soooo today is another failure to quite capture what it is that still life is, but I do say that I still like these anyway.

Stacks seem to me a very common thing in still life. A stack of books, a stack of dishes, and even stacks of of pens and pencils. So today I tried picking out a few of my old school novels. Moby Dick is the big one. And then randomly stacking them on my side table. Upon this I discovered that books do NOT like flash. Ever try taking a picture of a book while its open? Not pretty I can assure you. You blind yourself and anyone else in the room, on top of that you can't read anything that was on the page. It reminds me of a white out in Antarctica.

By the way, while taking these photos I had to move the things off my side table and realized... I have perfect still life stuff. A random fake flower bouquet, an old looking bowl with some change in it, and little trinkets that look like leaves. So that will be my attempt throughout tomorrow. To manage to take a far away shot of these things on the table... or a table. You know I haven't quite decided where, but I'll figure it out.

Also I realized old things make for a very fine subject matter. Grainy things like wood for instance. Make a very fine texture shot. We'll see if I can't manage to stack some of the long books too for another shot in my spare time. Not for this of course unless it turns out great because we all know what a mood I get into when I photograph the same subject matter days in a row. Soooo here we go. Which reminds me, the photo below... its not some special diary of secrets, it might not look it there, but its just my plant journal, heh. I'm starting this one out to record how my sunflowers grow this year. So its not as secretive as it looks, haha.

So try it yourselves, its rather fun. Making the simple ordinary things look suspicious.